Stefan Karlsson
Galleri Engstrom
Not only is the art of Stefan Karlsson hard to pin down, but the artist himself is quite elusive. He does not appear under his own name, but takes cover behind a fictitious enterprise called Paperpool International Corporation (PIC). Or perhaps fictitious is not the right word. It may be more accurate to say that Karlsson operates in a gray zone between fiction and reality. This allows him to criticize and satirize both the art world and the socio-political, corporate context surrounding art.
In this show PIC presents its latest range of products. The works’ exposed structure and boxlike format,